Heilig-Geist-Spital (Münstermaifeld)
The Heilig-Geist-Spital in Münstermaifeld is a former facility for the reception of the sick and the poor. The first documentary mention is dated November 10, 1309 .
history
The synods of Aachen in 817 and 836 made the canons of that time the requirement to maintain hospitals for the reception of the poor and sick. The establishment of the Heilig-Geist-Spital, first mentioned in 1309, is certainly related to the development of the Münstermaifeld monastery.
However, the existence of a hospital must be assumed even before it is mentioned for the first time. " It is by no means to be assumed that the well-known Stift zu Münstermaifeld, which is certainly well-to-do thanks to rich donations from bishops, knights, canons of the monastery, victims of the many pilgrims who came to Munster, did not comply with this order; on the contrary, existence must of a hospital can be assumed to be safe at the time ". It is known about the canon hospitals that they were located in the west of the collegiate church, perhaps to give those who went to church the opportunity to donate. Two provisional administrators administered the hospital at that time, one of whom was the monastery dean and the other a representative of the secular authorities. Since 1799 a hospital commission took its place. The first-named owner of the municipal benefice is documented as priest Heinrich de Vilis (July 25, 1310). Chronicler Büchel reports on the construction of a new hospital courtyard house behind the Heilig-Geist-Spital in 1760. The hospital was badly damaged by the chaos of the war in 1792/93 and temporarily served as a supply depot for the French troops. Finally, in 1880, the altar and the religious images were removed and the chapel was used as a wood store. In today's Frankenstrasse in Münstermaifeld, a new hospital was built in 1832 according to plans by the Koblenz master builder Johann Claudius von Lassaulx . In 1834 the community acquired the hospital chapel and built a teacher's apartment next to it. On October 3, 1836, the former hospital was bought for 225 Reichstaler at the time. The Holy Spirit School established there was then closed in 1880.
In 1896 the hospital went into private ownership and the new owner carried out extensive renovations. The town became the owner from December 16, 1940 to January 9, 1942, after which the Mayen-Koblenz district was named as the owner. From 1935 to 1950 there was a rural vocational school for girls in the hospital, and the teaching kitchen was used by the adult education center until 1970.
The hospital has been privately owned again since 1993.
architecture
The hospital is a rectangular building of former 7 axes, of which today the Gothic gable on the south side and the deeply drawn roof and part of the wall on the east side indicate the old building. The presumably square chapel was accessible from both the gable and the west side.
In the former chapel area, the building has undergone major changes several times. Finally by adding a second floor.
The courtyard house and courtyard garden, which were later connected to the hospital, could be reached through a beamed courtyard gate with a narrow roof (Franconian courtyard gate). The remaining courtyard gate is of a simple baroque style.
swell
- Johannes Büchel: History of the City of Münstermaifeld , Vol. V and VI (manuscript from 1792/93)
- Johannes Löhr: History of the St. Joseph Hospital Münstermaifeld , 1902
- Ulrich Craemer : The hospital as a building type of the Middle Ages , Kohlhammer 1963
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Main Archive Koblenz Stock 660, No. 1
- ↑ Johannes Löhr: History of the St. Joseph Hospital Münstermaifeld , 1902, page 4
- ↑ Ulrich Craemer: The hospital as a building type of the Middle Ages , Kohlhammer 1963, page 18
- ↑ Original in the Koblenz regional archive
Coordinates: 50 ° 14 '51.03 " N , 7 ° 21' 39.45" O